The Washington critic., 1887-06-04
LINCOLN AND HAMLIN.

A correspondent of the Warren
(Ohio) Tribune, suggests that If the
Republicans want 'sentimental'
ticket for 1888, the material Is ready at
hand In Robert I. Lincoln Of Illinois
and Charles Hamlin of Maine, sons re.
spectively of the illustrious candidates
who bore the Republican standard to
victory In 1860. The Tribune, how.
ever, which Is a stauuch Republican
paper, edited by MIR. w II. Smiley,
formerly of Washington does not
favor q sentimental ticket. 1t says:
The direction OF great parties and the
honors Of great partl belong 10 their great
leaders. The nen VIII have thought ont their
plans and led In the execution OF them, tho
men who have always been cillui upon when
great duties were to b, performed, are the
mon who should he put in their highest places
Therefore, the Republican Presidential noml-
nation belongs fret to James q. Blaine, and
next TO John sherman.
Ye, II Mr.. Sheim IN Is right In what
he said out in Illinois the other day,
within a stones throw of the tomb OF
Abraham Lincolp, that the line Of
demarca,ion between the two great
parties of the day is Union and Con.
federate," and that "the Demo.
cratic party is the left wing of the new
Confederate army" the situation In
1887 is not materially different from
what it was in 1860, and there woul
be something more than mere senti.
ment in putting Lincoln and Hamlin
on the Presidential track again, In
which event the Senator from Ohio
would have nobody TO thank for his
discontinue but himself.
Mr.. Robert T. Lincoln Is much bet.
ter known TO the people of the United
States to-day than his father was twen-
ty.seven years ago. The name of
Charles Hamlin is not so familiar; for
his father had been a member of Con-
gress, Governor of his State and three
times elected to the United States
Senate, before he was elected TO tho
Vice. Presidency. Still the people of
Maine are well acquainted with Cen
eral Hamlin and can vouch for him as
the worthy son of worthy sire. On
the whole, the ticket would be sensible
as well as sentimental, provided that
the sectional conditions which existed
in 1860 can be reproduced to divide and
distract the Union In 1893. Mr..
Sherman says that these conditions do
exist substantially now. and he is
going to make his fight on that line. If
so, the first thing for the Republican
National Convention TO do is TO take
Mr.. Sherman at his word, rule him oil
the track and substitute for the rev
emergency the names of Lincoln an
Hamlln, which would carry with them
under such circumstances more
magnetic inspiration than ever attached
to them before. Says the 7riJaHe:
1t is ticket which untes the lst and the
West. 1t is ticket which hnrmonizes the
Blaine and the Conklul Wigs OF the party,
for Lincoln was the one secretary who held
over from Grants term through that OF
Arthur. 1t is ticket ut which NJ Mugwum1 }
could carp, al d,whch would be straigthou,
and true enough for any stcadfast Repub-
can. II Is q ticket which would console Maine
for the defeat of Blame, and for which every
Republican In Ohio would shout. Never
theless, the Tribune does not favor this SC lti.
IN M tai ticket.
The Tribune probably holds to the
generally accepted opinion that. in
spite of Mr.. Sherman's ingenious
theories to the contrary, the war is
really over; and viewed from this
standpoint, the prettiness of the Lin:
coin. .Hamlin picture is somewhat
spoiled.